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the crop. The sole object of this competition is to stimulate 

 interest in young men on the farms, increase the corn crop of 

 the State, and in the course of years to secure the establishment 

 of a strain of corn known to possess the qualities of hardiness 

 and vitality, to make available corn especially adapted to our 

 climatic conditions. I have suggested these conditions because 

 it seemed to me that they might bring us some results which 

 will be of some benefit, and if the Society feels to adopt the 

 proposed scheme and provide for the issuing of slips so that 

 this matter may be brought to the attention of the young men 

 of the State, I will see that the funds are provided to pay the 

 premiums. 



It was voted by the Association that the prizes offered by Dr. 

 Twitchell, under the conditions presented by him, be accepted, 

 and a rising vote of thanks was given to him. The matter was 

 then laid upon the table until the annual business meeting of the 

 Association Thursday morning. 



REMARKS BY PROF. F. W. CARD, Sylvania, Pa. 



I have much hesitation in speaking to you expert dairymen 

 because I know that nothing which I can say will be of interest 

 to you, along your special line of work. For, while I have 

 something of a dairy on my own farm, I do not consider myself 

 a dairyman. I do not consider that I have mastered the funda- 

 mentals in all branches of that business. It seems to me that 

 it is the most intricate of all lines of farming operations, and a 

 business which demands the most careful and intelligent study, 

 in order that a man may succeed in it. One of the surprises 

 which has come to me in travelling over the State is the com- 

 paratively small number of dairies and dairy cows which I have 

 found. Of course I know well that there are large dairies and 

 good dairies in the State. I have been fortunate enough to see 

 a few of them, but in many cases I have heard farmers say they 

 are keeping two or three or four cows, and it rather surprised 

 me, coming as I do from what is primarily a dairy region. It 

 seems to me you have in this State some special advantages in 

 dairying. Your markets are apparently better than ours in 

 Pennsylvania. The prices you are getting for butter fat are 

 decidedly better than we get, and the fact that you sell much of 



